In an unprecedented historical moment, one of the top two presidential candidates is a convicted felon in the midst of criminal trials in federal and state courts. CERL Faculty Director Claire Finkelstein and Professor Richard Painter discuss the legal repercussions if Trump wins the election, and how a win will affect his trials and U.S. democracy as a whole in a paper for the Southern California Law Review.

Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Read her bio here.

Prof. Painter is the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota and co-author of the book, American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender. Read his full bio here.

Penn Today profiled the piece here.

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